Steve Ursenbach, general manager of SGI's Application Division commented, "VisLab is the first software program to take such advantage of our hardware rendering capabilities.
[13] EAI's computer-generated animations were used in reconstructing the TWA Flight 800 plane crash scenario and numerous crime scene investigations, including the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson[14] and the Oklahoma City bombing for NBC's Inside Edition.
[18][19] Based on the initial success of VisLab with automotive companies, EAI developed and released the first commercially viable 3D interactive visualization software package, VisFly, first on the SGI and later the HP and Sun platforms in 1995 and 1996.
This led to EAI's purchase that year of a small video game developer in Salt Lake City, Utah,[24] headed by Bryan Brandenburg.
The litigation supporting animation services portion of EAI continues as a spin-off company called Demonstratives,[8] today a division of Engineering Systems Inc. (ESI), in Aurora, Illinois.
In 2008, Vanderploeg, Rizai, and others in the EAI management team founded Webfilings (now known as Workiva), a SaaS company specializing in corporate compliance solutions software, also headquartered in Ames.